Numbered Discourses 5.37

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.37
2. 4. With Sumanā
3. Food
4. “Mendicants, when a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things.
5. What five?
6. Long life, beauty, happiness, strength, and eloquence.
7. Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human.
8. Giving beauty, they have beauty as a god or human.
9. Giving happiness, they have happiness as a god or human.
10. Giving strength, they have strength as a god or human.
11. Giving eloquence, they are eloquent as a god or human.
12. When a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things.
13. Being attentive, one is a giver of life, strength,
14. beauty, and eloquence.
15. An intelligent giver of happiness
16. gains happiness in return.
17. Giving life, strength, beauty,
18. happiness, and eloquence,
19. they’re long-lived and famous
20. wherever they’re reborn.”